Volume is the story here. ELENI measures 50 metres, but her 663 gross tons belong to a yacht considerably larger, and the difference shows in the places charter guests actually spend their time: wide side decks, a full-beam owner’s floor, and four decks of social space that never borrow from one another.
CBI Navi delivered her in 2005 and returned her to the water after a refit in 2018. Luca Dini shaped the interior, and it reads as two moods rather than one idea repeated. The main deck and the guest accommodation run dark, deep mahogany panelling, coffered ceilings, cream upholstery that lifts the wood instead of competing with it. A deck up, the register changes completely: honey-toned cherry and burl, a curved bar, ceilings that open the room outward. Guests looking for quiet settle below. Guests looking for light stay high. Few yachts at this length offer a real choice between the two.
The owner’s suite takes the full beam. His-and-hers bathrooms, a dressing room and a private study sit off the sleeping area, which lets the space work as an apartment rather than a cabin. Five further cabins carry the remaining guests, twelve in all, and two of them add jacuzzi tubs to the bathrooms. The doubles convert to twins, a detail that matters more on a family charter than the specification sheet suggests.
Outside, the sundeck does the heavy lifting. A jacuzzi sits forward among the sunpads with a bar to starboard, and directly aft of it, behind full-height glass, an air-conditioned gym shares the same view. Umbrellas, curved daybeds and loungers fill the rest of the deck, and after dark a cinema screen rigs against the rail. One level down, the aft deck handles dining: a round table for twelve under a sculpted overhead, open water on three sides.
Her watersports programme is the reason guests rebook. ELENI runs an RYA-approved training centre, so charter groups learn rather than simply ride. A 6.5-metre Castoldi jet dive tender covers the diving, and an 11-metre Wellcraft Scarab chase boat, towed on longer passages, turns a lunch stop three bays away into a twenty-minute run. Two Sea-Doo jet skis, two Seabobs, an inflatable slide, paddleboards, wakeboards, water skis and towables fill the rest of the day. The swim platform stages all of it without cluttering the decks above.
Thirteen crew look after twelve guests, a ratio that shows in the service rather than in the headcount. She cruises at 13 knots, tops out at 16, and carries roughly 4,000 miles of range, which means repositioning across a season without planning around fuel. Alongside, she absorbs up to fifty guests for a static event, capacity few 50-metre yachts can host without strain.
ELENI works the West Mediterranean through the year, and Corsica, Sardinia and the Côte d’Azur sit within an easy overnight of one another. For charter guests who want the interior volume of a far larger yacht, a deck programme built around the water, and crew who can teach as well as serve, she reads as a precise fit.
